Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

(FT) - At least four tankers loaded with Saudi crude have turned around following warnings from Yemen’s Houthi rebels that they will be targeted as part of a blockade of Saudi ports announced on Monday. @financialtimes.com #Houthis www.ft.com/content/6e28...

Pizzeria owner bans National Guard troops and dares Trump admin to do something about it #RawStory

BREAKING: A federal appeals court panel has upheld White House aide Peter NAVARRO's criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Elon Musk importing South African Apartheid to the USA... youtube.com/shorts/_Cn40...

Latest updates from Katie Phang on her lawsuit against the United States Justice Department and Blanche... youtu.be/JzVZxT7ZtJo?...

NEW: 500+ journalists formally ask White House Correspondents Assoc. "to publicly pledge that it will fight back against the Trump Admin's assault on press freedom" at its dinner with Trump on Friday "Attacks on journalists and press freedom have become even more egregious"

The New Republic today: MAGA Rages at Lindsey Graham’s Sister for “Idiotic” Decision Darline Graham Nordone announced her decision to run for a full term. newrepublic.com/post/213304/...

Recent presidential polling along with an interview with New Hampshire Democratic candidate for Senate: Chris Pappas. youtu.be/MCKgWj9mYJY?...

Oh how the cultists used to cheer at his campaign rallies when he said this.

Iowa's long-simmering water problem has finally begun to boil over. And in a state long dominated by Republicans, the motivating power of tainted water and rising cancer rates could give Dems an opening in the midterms. Read our report with @thefern.org👇 politi.co/4fccp0F

👇 Heads-up! 👇

New: Apple says it has fixed a vulnerability that was revealing the real email addresses of Hide My Email users. Apple knew about this vulnerability for more than a year, but only actually fixed it after 404 Media covered the issue this month www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...

Sister Rose Kuhn, who accompanies children forced to go to immigration court alone, “has seen 14-year-olds told they are mature enough to handle their case by themselves and file their own paperwork.” www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/mi...

The Pentagon is going broke? Go figure... youtube.com/shorts/_KJiH...

Russell Vought should be impeached The two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget has been two-timing Congress, making spending cuts that lawmakers rejected.

🚨MARSHA STAFFER: “IT’S GONNA BE HELL. YOU’RE GONNA BE ASKED TO BREAK THE LAW.” Phil Williams got tapes from INSIDE @MarshaBlackburn’s office showing Marsha + “bald-headed psychopath” Ward Baker illegally make taxpayer-funded staffers do campaign work - and Marsha is lying about the ethics probe.

Man, oh man, OH MAN! The Paramount-Warner Brothers acquisition suddenly takes an unexpected (yet unsurprising) turn... youtu.be/BAaa7aYqaxs?...

Frank Bisignano, the head of the IRS and Social Security Administration, runs two government organizations. When he was co-chief operating officer at Chase, he spied on fellow executives, accessing sensitive information without justification. Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Trump's pick for ICE head is deadbeat dad — and family drama could sink nomination: report #RawStory

Here we go again...

Valor News Network with Ken Harbaugh reporting on the administration's dismissiveness shown towards those injured and killed in Iran. youtu.be/jNP7PVaGCMQ?...

The Canadian companies trying to break Palantir’s grip on intelligence software Anvil and Caseway are building intelligence tools in Canada, but a US$300-billion American giant got its wares here first thelogic.co/news/canada-...

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

"Putin launched his war in Ukraine to project strength. Ending it under pressure would mean doing so from a position of weakness," writes Nina L. Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School, in her op-ed.

We just won a court order stopping the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. while our lawsuit continues.     We’re going to keep fighting to keep costs down for consumers, protect jobs, and stop this illegal merger.

Dina Doll reporting on the latest lawsuit to hit Fox News. This time, it involves Kevin O'Leary (of "Shark Tank" fame and, currently, building a mega data center). youtu.be/RiNjuivEz5Q?...

A 94 year old woman in Virginia is fighting to stop a gigantic data center from disturbing a centuries-old cemetery where her ancestors are buried, including those who were enslaved. Just when you think you couldn’t be more disgusted.

And here we go... youtu.be/wlmIuMCh7Qw?...

Let's all thank everyone who stands up & fights the injustice & brutality of this regime. You are true heroes. Talking to your friends and family & sharing what's going on makes a difference. The next post in this thread is shocking. ICE brutally attacked a young man, but we can't look away.

Why is Kash Patel going to Moscow? youtube.com/shorts/TYj9W...

Todd Blanche’s grotesque ambition is on full display. But many don’t know what happened behind closed doors when he met with several Epstein survivors. Sky and Amanda Roberts join me with the details, incl. the jaw-dropping moment Blanche disrespected Virginia’s memory. youtu.be/R9NNhQlgZYc?...

Jerry Mander: "It's time to make science a thing again."

Troy Jackson is the new Democratic candidate for the US Senate race against Susan Collins in Maine. He's a fifth-generation logger & a lifelong fighter for workers' rights. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Consider donating/volunteering because of this late start. www.jacksonformaine.com

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has the constitutional authority to temporarily appoint someone to fill Mitch McConnell’s seat. If GOP lawmakers want to challenge that, they can do so. This will be the first big test to see whether Beshear really is presidential material. I hope he passes the test.

This evening's headlines from Aaron Parnas. Unfortunately, the explosive diarrhea story is not going to be resolved any time soon... youtu.be/iy1zD0lLvmU?...

I haven't thought about Warren Jeffs and the FLDS for years. Now he's back in the news, thanks to a GOP candidate for governor. youtu.be/Qc-4RLzFUP8?...

WE ALL KNOW SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT HERE Over a month. Zero public appearances. One questionable photo. During an interview w/Katie Couric, Gov Beshear said he received calls from 2 agencies reporting that McConnell died before leaving the hospital. #KYSpecialElection @govandybeshear.bsky.social

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Chris Deluzio, and Pat Ryan have introduced a bill to break up meat monopolies. Good. Right now, 4 meat processing corporations control 80% of the market, allowing them to squeeze customers and farmers alike. Minimal competition means maximal price gouging.

Some more interesting news... youtu.be/zoP_9pM_P4g?...

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

The man went chasing gold and wound up being a fool. youtube.com/shorts/AA0j4...

MeidasTouch analyzes the latest from Iran... youtu.be/wpPW8EdOXbw?...

NEW: On Alaska’s Adak Island, it costs more than $340,000 per year to provide hundreds of buildings — all but a few of them empty — with internet access no one uses. The money being wasted is yours. With @adn.com

Latest reporting from Scott MacFarlane. youtu.be/hUPtFKdC8A0?...

Lawsuit dodgers as well as draft dodgers... youtu.be/3Cms5fB5YKs?...

NEW: As ProPublica and @startribune.com investigated child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, reporters found a common theme: children who were victims of sexual misconduct going on to repeat the behavior.